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A nurse is considering remortgaging her home to pay for Welsh language education for her children after raising concerns over the lack of resources available.

Helen D'Aulby said it seems "disciminatory" that online lessons are not being offered by Ysgol Glan Clwyd in St Asaph, while other schools in Denbighshire are providing "more engaging" material to pupils in English.

Speaking to North Wales Live, she said: "There are excellent online lessons through the medium of English, but very little Welsh medium.

"Glan Clwyd has sent homework, not lessons, which is not academically challenging and has stated the expectation is that pupils should spend two hours per day on school work.

"Yet for other non-Welsh medium schools, there are lessons online for every year group which are engaging and excellent and with a full timetable."

Ysgol Glan Clwyd, St Asaph (Image: Daily Post Wales)

Ms D'Aulby said she believes structure and routine are good for mental health and maintain the ability for children to easily go back to lessons when schools reopen.

She added: "There are also many other benefits including maintaining Welsh language skills in a non Welsh-speaking family and the ability to compete for more jobs which are Welsh essential.

”It worries me that all children in High Schools across Wales aren't doing much academic work, and will be falling behind pupils in England who are following the full timetable of lessons provided by the Oak National Academy and the English Government.

"This is particularly true for pupils attending Welsh medium High Schools. It’s a concern to me that Welsh children may fall behind their English counterparts and it may affect GCSE results in Wales much more than in England & English medium schools.

"That makes me consider whether we will have to switch to English medium school where the academic progress has been maintained.

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"We are even thinking we may have to pay for our children to attend a school where lessons have been provided so our children are with peers at the same level as themselves.

"We don’t have the money so would need to be looking at whether we have enough equity on the house to fund this for the children for all the years to come, yet we do already pay for education through our taxes.

"It seems discriminatory that English medium children can have lessons online but Welsh medium children get no lessons."

Ms D'Aulby, who works on the Covid red ward, questioned why one school could not set something up for all Welsh-medium school pupils to make use of.

She said: "I work in the NHS and we had to be up and running with virtual meetings and face to face consultations very quickly.

"Surely across the whole of Wales there are Welsh speaking teachers who are tech savvy and could provide virtual lessons?

"It would only take one high school to provide lessons which could be accessed by all Welsh medium children at the same time, just like the English government has provided."

A spokesperson for Denbighshire County Council said: “Ysgol Glan Clwyd is following regional and Welsh Government guidance on distance learning which states that live streaming lessons is not recommended.

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“From the beginning of this period the school has been using Google classrooms to put out all teaching materials to pupils and provide support to their 1,000 students at this time.

"The school is also providing paper copies of work for students unable to access online resources.

“The new Distance Learning Model the school has adopted with Key Stage 3 students this week follows regional and national guidelines, and emphasises students’ well-being and takes into account those students who are feeling under pressure at this time.

"A baseline of two hours learning a day has been suggested, but this is flexible according to each student’s situation and circumstance.

"Like other schools, Ysgol Glan Clwyd would encourage the use of other educational platforms available to supplement students’ education during this time, again dependent on the pupil’s needs and circumstances.”